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Tabs replaced by spaces in e-mails?

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by kkishi

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Why are tabs replaced by spaces in e-mail attachments? We wish to import data in tab delimited format into a database, but some of the data files we receive have their tabs replaced by spaces, and there is no apparent relationship to the number of tabs and spaces.

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by dklippert

I don't believe it's a factor of being an attachment. The layout of the data file is determined by the application.
How is the file generated, and what is the application importing the data?

by kkishi

Doug, you're right. The corruption occurred after changing our e-mail client from Eudora Light 3.06 to Eudora 5.1. Switching back to Eudora Light 3.06 fixed the problem. Thank you.

by kkishi

The data is created using various applications and sent by e-mail from Macs and PCs. Most are generated by a FileMaker Pro database program that we distributed, but we cannot control the e-mail program used to send the data. We use Eudora 5.1 to receive the e-mail and import the data into FileMaker Pro.

by kkishi

Before importing the data, we view it with Word 2000 to check it for proper formatting.

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